Glen Farley has covered the Patriots for The Enterprise since the Raymond Berry regime.

Ninkovich recalls his early days in New England

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Glen Farley has covered sports for The Enterprise since 1978. His time on the Patriots beat dates back to the final year of the Raymond Berry regime, 1989. You could say his roots lie in Foxboro. He once won an award for a piece he wrote on the sod
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Glen Farley has covered sports for The Enterprise since 1978. His time on the Patriots beat dates back to the final year of the Raymond Berry regime, 1989. You could say his roots lie in Foxboro. He once won an award for a piece he wrote on the sod at Gillette Stadium.

Lots more in Tuesday's print editions of The Enterprise and The Patriot Ledger, but defensive end Rob Ninkovich -- one of the truly good guys in the Patriots' locker room -- spoke earlier today about the contract extension that ties him to the team through 2016.

Ninkovich recalls the days, the year was 2009, when he was new on the scene in New England, having been cut four times, twice each by New Orleans and Miami.

"Coming in, I was living out of a Rubbermaid bin just with clothes and I’d throw it in the back of my car and drive from city to city, so it’s nice to actually have a home for longer than a year," Ninkovich said. "I’ve been here a while now, which is nice."